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scans_dailyIts premise is the same as its original - inventor Curtis Metcalf, wronged by his employer Edwin Alva, seeks revenge with a technological arsenal of his own development.
Issue #1's an engaging read, in part because of its balance between action and dialogue.
There's Curtis, as he's fending off the Dakota police - and then there's Edwin Alva, talking to the Dakota police.
(" Gas canisters " refers to this continuity's metahuman-creating " Big Bang ", in which the transformative agent was " not ready for field use " tear gas provided by Alva Industries.
Curtis got saddled with the blame for the fallout.)
Hardware, who'd been knocked down by police aircraft, rose again and went for round two.
Curtis addressed him.
(Often, when stories want to demonstrate a character's capabilities through their creating something, they treat that creation as if it sprung entirely from that one character.
Having Curtis' audio device be rooted in a previous creation of Alva's lends this instance of that nuance approaching real-world technological histories - and also makes it a moment of characterization for Alva, with his making the device's derivative nature part of his minimization of Curtis.)
Alva's window burst.
(Script's Brandon Thomas.
Art's Denys Cowan, inks're Bill Sienkiewicz, color's Chris Sotomayor, and letters're Rob Leigh.
Pagecount's 6 of 20 - issue #2 was this week.)
Issue #1's an engaging read, in part because of its balance between action and dialogue.
There's Curtis, as he's fending off the Dakota police - and then there's Edwin Alva, talking to the Dakota police.
(" Gas canisters " refers to this continuity's metahuman-creating " Big Bang ", in which the transformative agent was " not ready for field use " tear gas provided by Alva Industries.
Curtis got saddled with the blame for the fallout.)
Hardware, who'd been knocked down by police aircraft, rose again and went for round two.
Curtis addressed him.
(Often, when stories want to demonstrate a character's capabilities through their creating something, they treat that creation as if it sprung entirely from that one character.
Having Curtis' audio device be rooted in a previous creation of Alva's lends this instance of that nuance approaching real-world technological histories - and also makes it a moment of characterization for Alva, with his making the device's derivative nature part of his minimization of Curtis.)
Alva's window burst.
(Script's Brandon Thomas.
Art's Denys Cowan, inks're Bill Sienkiewicz, color's Chris Sotomayor, and letters're Rob Leigh.
Pagecount's 6 of 20 - issue #2 was this week.)
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Date: 2021-10-16 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-17 07:42 pm (UTC)In a single line of dialogue the parasite that is Edwin Alva makes me hate him more than I have ever hated Darkseid, Carnage or the Joker